🧠Vanished: Unexplained Mysteries from the Bermuda Triangle
The Calm Before the Storm
It was a chilly morning on November 29, 1925, when the SS Cotopaxi—a large cargo steamship—pulled away from Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Her massive hull groaned as she began her voyage toward Havana, Cuba, carrying a full load of coal. Onboard were 32 crew members, all under the command of Captain W.J. Meyer, a seasoned sailor with decades of sea experience. The journey was routine. The Cotopaxi had made this trip before. But no one aboard could have imagined that this would be the final voyage of the ship—or that it would go on to become one of the most enduring mysteries linked to the Bermuda Triangle. Just two days into the journey, somewhere in the vast, empty blue between Florida and Cuba, the Cotopaxi transmitted a distress signal. She had encountered a violent tropical storm. According to the message, the ship had taken on water, was tilting dangerously, and the crew was in serious trouble, and then—radio silence. The SS Cotopaxi vanished without a trace.
